Table 1

Descriptive information on overall UK 5 km parkrun data (702 locations) and as stratified by participant sex during the 6-year time period (2014–2019)

UKMaleFemale
Total participations29 476 294
25 250 495
15 720 468
14 306 085*
11 851 202
10 944 410*
Total participants recording at least one parkrun2 090 129
1 808 324
1 034 129
874 112*
1 055 974
934 212*
Mean (SD) age†by run: 41.0 (12.5) by athlete: 36.0 (12.4)by run: 41.9 (12.8) by athlete: 36.1 (12.9)by run: 39.8 (12.0) by athlete: 35.8 (11.9)
Sex distribution
(male:female)
by run=57:43 by athlete=48:52
Finish time in mm:ss median
(IQR)
27:47
(24:08 - 32:05)
25:20
(22:34 −28:46)
31:00
(27:45 −35:00)
Mean (SD) no of runs/year/participant7.2 (9.4)7.9 (10.1)6.4 (8.6)
Mean (SD) no of years with at least one run recorded over 2014–20191.95 (1.39)2.08 (1.48)1.84 (1.29)
  • Data in bold are the data included in the statistical analysis after data cleaning (reasons for removing data include unidentified finishers, all junior data, etc).

  • *Sex not stated or ‘other’ replaced by race category sex. One participant likely changed gender for which their majority gender was used.

  • †Age is determined by middle of age category they participated under, which is then averaged over all runs for the per athlete statistics.